What should I look for when choosing a loan origination system?
Asked “What should I look for when choosing a loan origination system?”, the five engines named MeridianLink in 3 of 15 answers, nCino in 3 and Blend in 1. MeridianLink came from Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity did not name it. 18 of the 25 checked vendors were never named here, including Abrigo and Baker Hill.
If you sell loan origination and lending software and your name is not in that list, this is the question to fix first.
These answers come from one capture on 22 September 2026, three runs per engine, to this fixed wording. They are not a ranking, and an engine can answer differently on a refresh.
Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.
Who was named
Each count is over the 15 valid answers to this exact question. Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.
Checked loan origination and lending software vendors named in answers to this question, counted per answer.
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One sentence per engine at most, chosen by a fixed rule: the first full sentence naming a checked vendor, read in run order. Every answer in full: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.